One element of survival is nutrition. There are instances when food is fuel, and the only concern is ingesting more calories than you burn up. (That even sounds unappetizing!) But there are ways to prepare basic, staple TASTY foods using off-the-grid methods: i.e. over a campfire, in a Dutch oven or by using aluminum foil wraps. Learn how to cook over a single heat source, using simple, tried-and-tested cooking methods!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

This week’s survival recipe comes from Ann Gawith, of La Pine, OR. Ann and her husband, Gerald, recently retro-fitted a wood stove in their home to provide a reliable heat source during Central Oregon’s cold, snowy winters.
The Gawiths regularly use their wood stove for cooking, but this recipe could easily be adapted to cooking over a campfire with a Dutch oven suspended from a tripod. Ann suggests this recipe as a good use of those stalwarts of long term food storage, dried lima beans.